Hey,
Just back from windy Laughlin on the Colorado River and the whiskey is wearing off. I took a laptop and it said the e-mails were sent, but they died somewhere in the transfer. I’m going to buy a Mac laptop and use it for everything.
I wandered the isles of vendors looking for new and exciting shit. We noticed a heavy influx of baggers and bagger gear, then a shift to Sportsters, and the Trike population is growing like mad. We ran into a trike built with a V-4 Ford driveline that was amazing.
Times are changing. All the casinos posted No Colors everywhere, but the Aquarius filled up with Mongols Thursday, wearing patches. One security guard said, “The Mongols do whatever they please.”
BOBBER FEATURE COMING TO A MAGAZINE NEAR YOU–Mr. Bandit– when back from your travels, have a look at this Silverlake bobber I found outside Mark Mahoney’s tattoo shop the other nite…
M.
STD LIVES, FIRST T-SHIRT WINNER–We have a handful of the new STD Lives t-shirts, which we are making available to Bikernet readers who can send me a shot of their STD based ride. Here’s our first winner:
I am running STD transmission cases in both my bikes one with a STD ratchet top and one with a OEM handshift top
–Harry
TRANSMISSION TECH QUESTION– I need some help with my RSD 6-Speed Roadmax transmission in my 2005 Steed. Now it has about 6000 miles and it slips out of 3rd gear only when high torque applied… Like acceleration onto freeway. Feels like the clutch is slipping….
I’ve been told that American Ironhorse had a rash of this same issue. I’m thinking it’s shifter forks & drum problem.
Roadmax is out of business as far as I can tell. Do you know of a fix, or who may have an inventory of replacement parts for Roadmax transmissions?
Thanks for your help. I’m stumped!
— John Covington
CovingtonShoots.com
JCStudiosLLC.com
602 502-7833
john@jcstudiosllc.com
John,
Let me look into this. I had a couple of those transmissions. You might call Paul Platts at JIMS. He might know and be able to help.
–Bandit
STURGIS MUSEUM 2011 FREEDOM FIGHTER ANNOUNCED–April 2011 – – The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame is proud to announce the 2011 Freedom Fighters Hall of Fame Inductee, Rodney Taylor of Indiana.
The Freedom Fighters Hall of Fame recognizes the commitment and sacrifices individuals across the nation, and world, have made to protect the rights of motorcyclists. In their honor the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame established the nation’s first and only Freedom Fighters Hall of Fame.
Rodney Taylor has been actively involved in the motorcyclists rights movement since the early 1980s. His interest was first piqued by rider education and he has worked endless hours on this community service. He’s donated time and money to help develop motorcycle safety programs and to purchase equipment. He paid for all of the costs of establishing the first Mobile Training Unit (MTU) for ABATE of Indiana’s Motorcycle Safety Division in 1985. This first MTU laid the groundwork for a training program in Indiana that has trained almost 100,000 riders.
As an attorney, Taylor has offered endless advice and services to motorcycling organizations around the world, all at no cost. He’s assisted numerous state Motorcycle Rights Organizations in the proper structuring of their organizations.
People who know Taylor will tell you that his work in motorcyclists rights has been tireless and that he does the work because he believes in it so strongly. Several supporters have indicated that Taylor is always focusing the spotlight away from himself and on to others when it comes to the accomplishments of Indiana Motorcycle Rights. He continues to work with others in Indiana to lobby on behalf of motorcycle rights.
Rod heads up ABATE Legal Services and has helped to create www.roadhazards.org – a website designed to allow motorcyclists an easy way to report road hazards to the appropriate agencies in various states.
Breakfast tickets are available for a $35.00 donation, tables of eight for $300.00. Tickets can be purchased through the Museum 605.347.2001 or on line www.sturgismuseum.com.
WILD WEEKEND PRODUCT FROM CUSTOM CYCLE ENGINEERING, The “Hang Around”– The fix for all your fuel filling, Gas cap, where the hell did that cap go pains in the ….
The “Hang Around” is the great idea that we all have needed and never know excited.
Made of stainless steel and inserts into the OEM H-D gas cap and stays there till you need to fill up with gas.
Simply unscrew the cap as normal and the Hang Around is there ready to do it’s job, Just hang around. Ounce you have the cap in your hand you can hang it on your throttle cable, at least on the bikes that still have them or forthe newer fly by wire bikes you simply hang the cap on the
end of the front brake lever. Now when you done filling the tank with that liquid gold at $4 plus a gallon, you know where your gas cap is and it has not fallen off your seat and you have not drove off with it still on the top of the gas pump.
The answer is “The Hang Around”
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Custom Cycle Engineering
Marketing – Product Development
Oceanside CA.
1-800-472-9253
www.customcycleengineering.com
LATEST SLEEK CLASSIC FROM CRO CUSTOMS–It’s done, finally.
— Caleb Owens
cro customs inc.
310.923.2613
www.crocustoms.com
AMD World Championships of Custom Bike Building– The reports are coming in, builders and manufacturers are heading to Sturgis this year. It has nothing to do with any kind of economic recovery, but more that it is time to ride. This factor, combined with the increased presence of the AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building, is going to produce quite the crowd on 3rd and Lazelle at the Official Harley-Davidson Headquarter’s display.
THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A COUPLE WHO HAD BEEN HAPPILY MARRIED FOR YEARS–THE ONLY FRICTION IN THEIR MARRIAGE WAS THE HUSBAND’S HABIT OF FARTING LOUDLY EVERY MORNING WHEN HE AWOKE. THE NOISE WOULD WAKE HIS WIFE AND THE SMELL WOULD MAKE HER EYES WATER AND MAKE HER GASP FOR AIR.
EVERY MORNING SHE WOULD PLEAD WITH HIM TO STOP RIPPING THEM OFF BECAUSE IT WAS MAKING HER SICK.. HE TOLD HER HE COULDN’T STOP IT AND THAT IT WAS PERFECTLY NATURAL. SHE TOLD HIM TO SEE A DOCTOR, SHE WAS CONCERNED THAT ONE DAY HE WOULD BLOW HIS GUTS OUT.
THE YEARS WENT BY AND HE CONTINUED TO RIP THEM OUT. THEN ONE THANKSGIVING MORNING AS SHE WAS PREPARING THE TURKEY FOR DINNER AND HE WAS UPSTAIRS SOUND ASLEEP, SHE LOOKED AT THE INNARDS AND NECK, GIZZARD, LIVER AND ALL THE SPARE PARTS AND A MALICIOUS THOUGHT CAME TO HER.
SHE TOOK THE BOWL AND WENT UPSTAIRS WHERE HER HUSBAND WAS SOUND ASLEEP AND, GENTLY PULLING THE BED COVERS BACK, SHE PULLED BACK THE ELASTIC WAISTBAND OF HIS UNDERPANTS AND EMPTIED THE BOWL OF TURKEY GUTS INTO HIS SHORTS.
SOME TIME LATER SHE HEARD HER HUSBAND WAKEN WITH HIS USUAL TRUMPETING WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY A BLOOD CURDLING SCREAM AND THE SOUND OF FRANTIC FOOT STEPS AS HE RAN INTO THE BATH ROOM. THE WIFE COULD HARDLY CONTROL HERSELF AS SHE ROLLED ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING, TEARS IN HER EYES! AFTER YEARS OF TORTURE SHE RECKONED SHE HAD GOT HIM BACK PRETTY GOOD.
ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES LATER, HER HUSBAND CAME DOWNSTAIRS IN HIS BLOODSTAINED UNDERPANTS WITH A LOOK OF HORROR ON HIS FACE. SHE BIT HER LIP AS SHE ASKED HIM WHAT WAS THE MATTER.
HE SAID, ‘HONEY YOU WERE RIGHT.’ ‘ALL THESE YEARS YOU HAVE WARNED ME AND I DIDN’T LISTEN TO YOU.’
‘WHAT DO YOU MEAN?’ ASKED HIS WIFE.
‘WELL, YOU ALWAYS TOLD ME THAT ONE DAY I WOULD END UP FARTING MY GUTS OUT, AND TODAY IT FINALLY HAPPENED.
BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD, SOME VASELINE AND TWO FINGERS. I THINK I GOT MOST OF THEM BACK IN.’
–Bandit
BAD COP WEB SITE– The following site was just sent to me. Damn I know there are a lot of Bad Cops but I was surprised by how many a day gets posted on this site.
http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/
–Rogue
Sturgis Freedom Fighters
Motorcycle Hall Of Fame Member 2005
www.bikerrogue.com
LIL’ JOE LEATHERS, THE STARS OF SONS OF ANARCHY, SHINED AT THE RIVER RUN–We ran into Mike and Lori, the bosses of Lil’ Joe leathers, at the Colorado Belle.
I don’t watch SOA, but I’m under the impression the entire crew wear Lil’ Joe legendary vests made in America, or their deer skin leather shirts.
SMART KEYS: Not So Smart for Motorcycles?–Ducati is recalling certain motorcycles, including its flashy, powerful new Diavel.
That’s what could happen with certain Ducati motorcycles because of a potential problem with their electronic steering locks, which are part of their anti-theft systems. The company says the chances of such an occurrence are extremely slim. But Ducati is recalling 1,051 bikes and updating their software to make sure the steering unlocks when it is supposed to.
–By Jonathan Welsh, Wall Street Journal
THE HISTORY OF THE MUDFLAP GIRL COMES TO BIKERNET–‘Mudflap Girl’ Was This Guy’s Mom.
If you’ve driven anywhere in the past 30-odd years, chances are you’ve seen the chromed silhouette of a reclining woman affixed to the mudflaps of a big rig. She’s known far and wide as Mudflap Girl, but Ed Allen has another name for her: Mom.
Allen, a fashion designer in Washington, D.C., claims the image was designed by his father Stewart, a long-haul trucker who always decorated his rig with an image of his wife, Rachel Ann. Now, Ed Allen is paying homage to Mudflap Girl, er, mom, with a line of shirts bearing her voluptuous profile, for which he now owns the trademark.
Before we could page Dr. Freud, Allen let us know the original image was quite innocent, a simple vacation photo of mom in a bathing suit. It was nothing the whole family hadn’t seen countless times before.
Dad kept the photo in the cab of his truck, which always bore his wife’s name on the hood. When a new corporate owner forbade Stewart from decorating a company-owned vehicle, Stewart put his wife’s silhouette on his trailer’s mudflaps so his boss couldn’t see her when the truck was backed up to a loading dock.
In 1967, Ed Allen said that a local truck accessories manufacturer named Bill Zinda saw the design. He liked it and, with dad’s permission, started selling it. No one ever trademarked the image, and Mudflap Girl got around a lot during the freewheeling ’70s.
The back story is, of course, just that — a story. But it’s a compelling one.
“Regardless of the precise truth of the narrative, the important issue here is: why is this image so ubiquitous?” asked Heather Joseph-Witham. She’s a folklorist who teaches at Otis College of Art and Design and who has also debunked urban legends for Mythbusters. To her, the Mudflap Girl is quintessentially American. “Why do so many people feel the need to display it? What does it say about us?”
Allen assures us the story is true, but you’d expect him to do that. His father died in 2006, his mother now suffers from Alzheimer’s and we couldn’t find any trace of Bill Zinda. The first trademark of Mudflap Girl’s likeness is held by Ed Allen.
According to Joseph-Witham, the story has the hallmarks of an urban legend: anonymous origins, told in the first person as a true story dealing with contemporary culture, backed up with circumstantial evidence. Add that plenty of online accounts claim the real Mudflap Girl, who is said to have been everything from a naughty nurse to a sexy stripper. Still, Allen’s story is enjoyable enough that even if it isn’t true, it oughtta be.
“The image is of a man who doesn’t want to stay in one place, who wants to see the country but bring money home for his family,” said Joseph-Witham. “He’s free, but responsible.”
That image sure fits with how Allen described his father and the trucker lifestyle of the late ’60s and early ’70s. “It was one of those times that was all about individuality,” he said. “It was all about not being part of the establishment. Especially back in the ’70s, truckers were seen like modern cowboys.” That’s why she caught on. “As a blank image, as a projection, originally, everybody liked that rebelliousness.”
As for the girl herself, though some may see her as purely a sexual image, Joseph-Witham likes to think she symbolizes a driver’s relationship with the open road and all it entails. “Trucker and truck are united as a symbiotic and inseparable duo, with the trucker in charge and on top,” she said. Okay, so it’s a little sexual.
While the trucker-as-cowboy ethos still appeals to many, since the ’70s Mudflap Girl has also been reappropriated with an ironic twist. She’s flipping the bird as the symbol of the blog Feministing
“Rachel is a pretty strong woman,” he said. “Everyone thinks about the girl and, you want to go right into the truck stops. Actually, it’s really a much more sophisticated audience.”
–from John Botts
WILMINGTON AND SAN PEDRO UNDER ATTACK–man, you missed the huge gang raids in Wilmington & ‘Pedro! They’re probably lookin’ for you right now.
Oh, and Bandit rides again in the new 40th Anniv Easyriders.
–Markus Cuff
METALSPOT BILLET TRUNK RACK–I love your billet trunk rack. Have you considered making these for Victory bikes such as the Cross Country, Cross Roads, and Vision? I think there would be a great market for these due to what Victory gets for their Kuryaken made racks.
–Comment from a Bikernet Reader
ROGUE REPORTING FROM THE VIETNAM VETERANS MOVING WALL–
I am heading out shortly to be one of the hundred of motorcyclist that will be escorting the Moving Vietnam Veterans Wall to Wickham Park in Melbourne Florida for the all veterans’ reunion that will be held there throughout the coming week.
Veterans and current people serve in the military so that we the people are able to live in the greatest country in the world. Oh it is not perfect but we continue to work on that as others try to take rights away from us.
One of the procedures to make things better is through the legislative body that makes the laws that govern us. There are some people who for their own gain, profit or other motivation want to control the people by passing laws that are unfair and unjust.
One of those laws currently being discussed in the State of Nevada is the Mandatory Helmet Law for motorcycle riders. Please Note: This is Not About If You Should Wear A Helmet Or Not. It is to Give You Freedom Of Choice. The correct procedure is to give you that choice and then each side present information to try and convince you what is best.
The Mandatory Helmet Law came into affect when Joan Claybrook and the NHTSA notified states that if they did not pass certain legislation the Federal Government would withhold highway funds. Where I come from that amounts to extortion and I felt strongly enough about it that I and others went to Washington D.C. to protest it. We were successful in doing so and some of the states that did pass legislation to force the wearing of helmets did repeal their law. Others that did not want to admit they knuckled under to the threats of other government agencies kept theirs. I say because of how these laws were enacted and because we were successful in overturning the Blackmail and Extortion threat that any law that was passed under that is in fact itself illegal
I am proud of people like Tigerlily and others who are trying to set the record straight in Nevada. I Respectively Request That Every One Reading It Help. If You Live In Nevada – Contact your Legislator and let them know how they vote on this will affect how you vote come next election time. Those who do not live in Nevada can contact the legislature and the Tourism Bureau and let them know you Will Not Be Visiting Nevada until they remove this prejudicial law.
–Rogue
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THE SUNDAY DEAL FROM THE BIKERNET CLASSIFIEDS ! A 2002 FAT BOY ! Powerful Twin Cam engine, looks to have Vance & Hines exhaust, very clean, sissy bar and luggage rack included. You can make this bike anything you want it to be! Less than 10 k on the ticker! Priced right!
–MIKE the STEALTH
This ad expires in 78 days.
$9,000.00
2002 fatboy 9,800 actual miles forsale. Will look at trades
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NEWS FROM THE SOUTH SIDE–Spread It Around SSK Has A New Web Store! From Van Chase Shift Knobs – Car Engine Dress Up Kits – Biltwell Products, Nash Motorcycle Company Products, No School Choppers, Rollin Sixes Choppers, Solo Seats, Grips, Exhaust Wrap, Custom Pinned Stuff, Custom Airbrushed stuff and much much more!. Stuff added Daily! You can get to the store by following the link below
http://store.south-side-kustoms.com
or thru www.south-side-kustoms.com
Jason McCudden
South Side Kustoms
596 Michigan Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14203
1-716-823-6279
1-800-675-3191
CUSTOM HARMONICAS ON YOUTUBE–Bandit
you like custom everything, saw this on Youtube and thought you might enjoy it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi1_5XxY4yQ&feature=relmfu
some nice custom harmonica work by Jason Ricci. Jason is as gay as they come, but he is also one helluva harmonica player.
You still learning how to toot?
–Anson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi1_5XxY4yQ&feature=relmfu
Hey Anson, I need to finish this book, and learn how they do it at Motorbooks, before I pick it up again. But I keep dreaming of a time I can play the blues around a bonfire.–Bandit
AMERICAN LEGION RIDERS Post 352– 1st and Penna. Ave. Somers Pt 3rd Annual Veterans Benefit PIG ROAST & CHICKEN BARBECUE
May 1st Sunday – Noon to 5:00 pm
Donation $20.00 pp at the door or from any Legion Rider
· BBQ NC Pork & Chicken Platter with fixens’
· Includes Free draft beer or soft drink
w/ mixed drinks @ Cash Bar
· hot dogs and hamburgers for the kids
Eat In or Take Out – Rain or Shine
Live Music, Billy Walton Band 50/50 & Door Prizes
For more info call HUTCH @ 609- 839-3020
GUN NUT REPORTER’S NEW DIGS– My new computer room. What do you think?
–Buckshot
CYCLE SOURCE BIG MOUNTAIN RUN REPORTER LOOKING FOR AN ASSIGNMENT–Can I cover BMR for you again this year? I’ll be starting the ride out at Don Woods Pre-Pre-Run party. Spend the night there, then run to Wicked Willy’s Pre Party, Spend the night camping there with Chris and the boys from Cycle Source, from there it’s off to the Wheels Through Time Museum.
Spending the night there and then off to the real party over the Mountain and the Big Mountain Run. In total, I will be be putting 1000 miles on the bike riding to all the events and back. I’m better prepared for what to expect this time, and I’d like very much to give ya a great review about this fantastic party. Can I Daddy? Can I please cover this for ya?
–Ms. Bragg
NOTE AT THE BIKERNET GYM– A man asking the Trainer in the gym: “I want to impress that beautiful girl, which machine should I use?”
Trainer: “Use the ATM machine outside the gym…
ANOTHER STRANGE DAY IN PARADISE–I don’t get it, but that’s nothing new. Our Internet connection is constantly up and down. Today it’s a mess. It comes and goes every five minutes. We can’t seem to do shit. Ah, but the sun is shinning and all is well at the Headquarters.
We ran into our Mudflap girl FXR frame builder in the Limpnickie lot in front of the Pioneer. He was showing off his new, easy to install, fork stops, and his new air cleaners, while hanging out with Duane Ballard the master leather worker and his new $350 wallet line, each one a one-off custom creation. Duane can do anything in leather.
His wife, Lisa, is the West Coast Editor of Cycle Source and the goddess of the Limpnickie lot program. Then we hooked up with Todd’s Cycle and picked one of their Sportsters to be featured on Bikernet by Gregg Friend. Todd just developed this fork cap for 49 mm Harley forks. They will give any monster wide glide a detailed look, plus they are lighter than stock.
We also stumbled onto Frank, at the Nino 925 Jewelry booth. Shortly he’ll be working on the Bikernet 15th anniversary ring with George Fleming’s art. He is also working on the Bikernet wheel ring in stainless, for a cool ring for only $40.
We are working on a new Cantina Membership Back Stage pass, that will bring you insurance discounts from Dairyland, discounts on bike parts, and a very special connection to Bikernet. We are thinking about having a quarterly get together at the headquarters for lunch and a meeting with a special member of the industry.
Let me know what you think would be terrific benefits for Back Stage members, and if you could come for a barbecue, who would you like to meet. This membership will cost about $39 a year, and we would throw special deals, bargains, and benefits at you monthly.
Never a dull moment.
Ride Forever,
–Bandit
